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Are we talking about the same "media companies" though? While many wouldn't shed a tear for entertainment groups such as the RIAA and other big media companies,
by vatueil 8y ago
Are we talking about the same "media companies" though? While many wouldn't shed a tear for entertainment groups such as the RIAA and other big media companies, the list of targets includes many newspapers and smaller media outfits:
> He sues media companies of all sizes—including Condé Nast, Hearst, Time Inc., Univision, Forbes, Barstool Sports, Breitbart News, Business Insider, Inside Edition, Zagat, Rolling Stone, the Daily Beast, the Daily Caller, the Daily Dot, the Daily Voice, the Village Voice, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, Vox Media, Cox Media, Uproxx Media, and, yes, The Slate Group—and in all seasons.
Even if Liebowitz's current attacks on news media are acceptable, I would worry whether such attacks from him and other lawyers might broaden their scope in the future. As the article mentions, the recent SDNY ruling that websites are liable for embedded content may be but the first expansion: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/federal-judge-says-embedding-tweet-can-be-copyright-infringement https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/federal-judge-says-emb...
- ubernostrum 8y agoNews organizations have engaged in "copyright trolling" too. Your Google search term for a notorious case is "Righthaven".
- a3n 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righthaven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righthaven